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Please enjoy the poetry I have written throughout my life. Just click on a theme or browse the full collection below.


Tom Paine, Dec 31st 1785
A taper illumines the head of the man bowed over the table, scribbling and smiling as ever, claiming that smoke descended, through his...


Light Falling on King Lear
The lights cut out as dusk fell on rehearsal in the handsome room in the northern capital city. The king paused in his rant and we waited...


In Camera
for Jean-Paul Sartre Exits are entrances - so actors tell - To a space which they create To make the watchers feel The unseen is just as...


Dennis Potter’s Last Performance
Stand by! The countdown has begun. The cameras roll; I hold the floor, Balance my cocktail, block the pain, At my best time, for the last time, Thinking about God – not the old sod, Cruelty’s first cause, who dwells Within or beyond us, but what compels A man or woman to create and give. Life quickens as it dwindles, Grows in the blossoming whiteness Of a plum tree near my window, Sown in the accidental land, Heart-shaped between rivers, In sight of remembered hills. What mak
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